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Season 3, Episode viii

The Return: Function viii

"This is the water. This is the well. Potable total and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark inside."

"I saw something in Cooper. It may be the key to what this is all about."

—Ray

Written by Mark Frost and David Lynch.

Directed by David Lynch.

Airdate: June 24, 2017.

You're gonna desire to strap in for this one....

The recently escaped Ray Monroe and Bob-possessed Cooper doppelgänger are fleeing in a car with South Dakota license plates, when they finish so that Ray tin can urinate. The Cooper doppelgänger pulls his gun on Ray, but it only clicks when he fires, and Ray shoots the doppelgänger in the chest with a gun of his own; he was prepared. Night translucent beings with matted beards tear into the torso of the doppelgänger equally Ray stands transfixed. The beings smear claret over the face of the body and dance in a circle before they pull a grey hulk with Bob's smiling face from the chest of the torso. A terrified Ray hightails it out of there and calls Phillip Jeffries.

9 Inch Nails is introduced on the stage at the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks. The band plays "She'south Gone Away".

The Cooper doppelgänger is lying on the footing where he was shot. He suddenly sits up and opens his eyes, still covered in claret.

And here is where things become, shall we say, odd.

We encounter a desert landscape on July 16, 1945, in White Sands, New Mexico, at five:29 AM (MWT). A voice counts downwards from ten, and a vivid lite flashes. A modest mushroom cloud is seen in the distance as "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" plays. The camera soars over the New Mexico landscape until the screen is filled with smoky bursts and buzzing flickers.

A model-similar 1940's gas station convenience store with cans stacked in the window is seen in the desert. The door opens and closes in a start-end manner, and a plumage of fume builds by this door. Lights then wink in the store, and the windows cook equally if an explosion was contained within the unshaken building, while the lightbulbs higher up the gas pumps fire unbroken. Of a sudden, the disguised men with soot stained skin, who pulled Bob from the doppelgänger, appear outside the convenience store. More of these men continue to appear and wander in a flickering manner outside of the store. These men then enter the convenience shop until only the store is seen which moves in and out of focus. We then see the silhouettes of the men inside the shop as they gather.

A characteristic-less female figure floats in a dark sky and vomits a descending frothy stream. Spheres of substance interruption abroad from the stream, including a dark bubble bearing the face of Bob. Beneath the surface of emesis, the humming flashes of color seen in the diminutive explosion reappear. A pulsing golden sphere fills the screen, followed by streaking scarlet lights.

Next, nosotros see a shot of a vast bounding main. The camera zooms to a tall chunk of rocky country topped with a strange building. We enter the building to see a woman listening to music from a gramophone, sitting beside a motorcar, which soon starts to flash and make a rhythmic sound. The Giant enters the room and eventually presses a push to cease the sound and flashing. He ascends a fix of stairs and enters a room with a large screen. He watches some of the scenes nosotros've already seen, including the bomb explosion, convenience shop, and floating figure. He pauses on the bubble with Bob's confront.

The giant begins floating, and a yellow light/substance is emitted from his head. The woman enters the room, and a gilded bubble showing Laura Palmer's face floats down to her. She kisses it and appears to send information technology to the epitome of earth that is at present displayed on the screen.

We cut to the desert in 1956. An egg appears, and a creature that seems to be part-frog, part-insect, with wings, hatches from information technology. The brute crawls abroad.

We see a young couple on a date walking home.

A bearded man like the ones before descends from the heaven in the desert. He approaches a couple in a car and repeatedly asks "gotta low-cal?" while moving and behaving in an eerie and unnerving mode. The couple speed away. He walks to a local radio station, nonetheless looking for a light. A adult female within approaches him. He grabs her head, and she looks terrified. The man crushes her skull, spraying blood on the floor.

The bearded man approaches the radio station'south DJ. He grabs the DJ'south head, stops the tape that is playing, and brings a microphone to his mouth. "This is the water and this is the well. Potable full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and night within," he repeats.

A waitress in a diner and a mechanic, both listening to him over the radio, plummet. The girl who was on a date falls asleep in her bed. The bug/frog creature from before flies into her window and approaches her face. She opens her mouth wide, and the creature crawls in.

The bearded human brutally crushes the DJ's skull, exits the radio station, and disappears into the desert. We hear a equus caballus neighing in the altitude.

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Tropes appearing in this episode:

• Alien Ocean: The imperial waves.
• Astronomic Zoom: The slow approach to the mushroom cloud over the New Mexico mural.
• Atomic Hate: The Trinity test allows Bob to sally.
• The Bait: Ray reasons that if Cooper is notwithstanding alive, he will come later on Ray. And since Ray told Mr. C where he was going, Ray tin then kill Cooper at the Farm.
• Beard of Evil: The Woodsmen have straggly matted facial hair.
• Brown Notation: The Woodsmen's chant, possibly.
• Call-Dorsum:
  • The floating experiments who belches forward Bob seems to be the same white figure from the premiere, who appeared in the drinking glass box and sliced the couple to ribbons.
  • When Cooper disappeared from the glass box in episode iii, he cruel on the balcony of a edifice surrounded past a imperial sea like to the building seen in this episode.
  • The big bell-shaped device which alarms in the room with Señorita Dido was previously seen on the box floating in space, where the bullheaded Naido guided Cooper in episode 3.
• Calling Your Bath Breaks: Ray asks permission to pull over so he tin can take a leak.
• Can't Impale You, Notwithstanding Need You: Booper helped Ray escape because he needs information from him.
• Graphic symbol Outlives Actor:
  • Frank Silva appears as Bob using archival footage, despite having died in 1995.
  • Ray talks to Phillip Jeffries on the phone, despite David Bowie'due south death in 2016.
• Chest Burster: The Bob blob is pulled from the chest of the Cooper doppelgänger with lots of blood.
• Chiaroscuro: The bright spotlights of Ray's headlights illuminate the road when they pull off the highway.
• Continuity Nod:
  • We see the give-and-take "fire" on Cooper's phone.
  • The MC at the Roadhouse has a pinecone on his microphone stand, recalling Chad'due south pinecone in episode 4.
  • During episode 3, Gordon Cole had a big print behind his desk in his Philadelphia office of what appears to be an old black and white photo of the mushroom cloud seen in this episode.
  • A phonograph is seen in the room with Señorita Dido, similar to the i in the room with Cooper and the giant, in the opening scene of the premiere. The flooring and left wall are also similar, suggesting these may be the same room or at least the same building.
• Creator Thumbprint:
  • The stage where the giant watches the emergence of Bob is the aforementioned seen in Lodge Silencio in Mulholland Dr.
  • We hear The Platters sing their 1956 striking "My Prayer" and 1 of the singers is named David Lynch.
• Cult Soundtrack: Angelo Badalamenti created some astonishing moments.
• Cutting the Electronic Leash: Doppel Dale tosses his telephone out of the window to avoid being tracked.
• Night Is Evil: The Woodsmen are night shadowy beings.
• The Dead Can Dance: The woodsmen trip the light fantastic in a skipping circumvolve around the body of the doppelgänger.
• Deadly Euphemism: Coopelganger says that Darya, whom he shot in the head, is "waiting for a phone call".
• Death Is Cheap: The Cooper doppelgänger, which Ray lampshades.

  Ray Monroe: Uh, I think he's dead, but he'southward found some kind of aid, so I'm non 100%.

• Delayed Explosion: The Trinity explosion lasts from xvi:54 to 21:twenty, over four minutes.
• The Dog Bites Back: Ray shoots evil Cooper.
• Dramatic Drop: Ray falls to the ground when he sees the Bob blob emerge from the body.
• Epileptic Flashing Lights: Flashes of bright light occur as the dark translucent beings attend to the fallen doppelgänger and when they after emerge at the convenience shop.
• Everything Fades: The body of the Cooper doppelgänger fades abroad as the woodsmen tear at it, and they seem to dance in the empty space where his body was, before his trunk solidifies as the essence of Bob is drawn out. His body then seems to disappear over again.
• Fade to Black: While the woodsmen trip the light fantastic toe after pulling the Bob blob from the trunk.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Ray and evil Cooper turn off the highway on to a minor gravel route, signaling the correct plow the episode was about to take.
  • Many of the lyrics in "She's Gone Away" as performed by 'The' Nine Inch Nails foreshadow a number of events in this episode.

    "You lot dig in places till your fingers drain,
    spread the infection where you spill your seed."

    "A niggling mouth opened up within..."

    "We keep licking while the skin turns blackness."

• Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Mr.C looks at his phone and mentions the tracking devices, we run into "C", "Fire", and "Dox" on the screen.
• Gas Station of Doom: The gas station/convenience shop with the independent explosion, which is overrun by woodsmen.
• Hobo: The woodsmen are dressed in dirty work clothes with soot stained pare and beards.
• Homage: "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" also played in The Shining, Children of Men, and The People Under the Stairs.
• Idiosyncratic Wipes: The expanding rings which transition from the convenience shop to the floating experiment, recalling a horn.
• Island Base: The White Belfry is located on a minor island in the center of a purple bounding main.
• It Works Better with Bullets: The doppelgänger'southward revolver misfires when he tries to shoot Ray.
• Local Hangout: Nosotros accept a musical interlude at the Roadhouse 11 minutes into the episode.
• Lower-Deck Episode: We spend no times with Cooper/Dougie or the FBI agents. We but visit Twin Peaks once to encounter the 9 Inch Nails play at the Roadhouse.
• Madness Mantra: "This is the water, and this is the well..."
• Magical Security Cam: The giant watches the explosion and emergence of Bob on a screen, using footage the viewers have already seen. (Although in this instance, it is quite conspicuously magical...)
• Meaningful Expect: After the giant turns off the alarm, he holds the gaze of Señorita Dido and then leaves the room.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: The frog with insect legs and wings that crawls into the daughter's oral cavity.
• Moment of Silence: After the Bob hulk is ripped from the body of the Cooper doppelgänger, the music continues to play merely Ray's screams are muted and he moves in tiresome motion.
• Monochrome Apparition: Dark greyness beings molest the torso of the doppelgänger after he is shot.
• Monochrome Past: 1945 and 1956 are filmed in blackness and white.
• Mysterious Protector: Señorita Dido and the behemothic seem to be monitoring earth and trying to assistance.
• Ominous Fog: The mist that surrounds the trunk subsequently evil Cooper is shot.
• Only in Information technology for the Money: Ray lets 'Cooper' know that he believes the numbers he has memorized are worth a whole lot of money.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Ray takes a contract to kill the Cooper doppelgänger for Phillip Jeffries.
• Origins Episode: Nosotros learn something of Bob'south evolution.
• Pants-Positive Safety: Ray pulls his gun out of his waistband.
• Power Floats: The behemothic floats in the air while creating the golden globe.
• Pre-Mortem Ane-Liner: Ray says, "Tricked ya, fucker."
• Professional person Killer: Ray takes a $500,000 contract to kill evil Cooper for Phillip Jeffries.
• "Psycho" Strings: "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" plays during the explosion.
• Reveal Shot: The photographic camera slowly pans up the sheer narrow rock jutting from the purple body of water to reveal a sleek building, resembling an Ominous Floating Castle.
• Revolvers Are Just Ameliorate: The doppelgänger checks that the gun in the glove compartment is loaded before he gets out of the machine, and seems surprised when the gun misfires, which makes sense as revolvers tend to take less malfunctions and are reliable guns.
• Shadow Discretion Shot: The silhouettes of the woodsmen in the convenience store.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: The MC at the roadhouse in his tuxedo.
• Silence Is Aureate: From 17:30 to 43:33, a 26 infinitesimal menses, there is no dialogue.
• Slasher Smile: Bob's teethy grin.
• Special Guest: 9 Inch Nails plays at the Roadhouse. They are announced every bit "'The' Nine Inch Nails," which is also how they are listed in the credits (quotes effectually the "The" included), apparently suggesting that they are some fictional and non-quite-as-famous version of themselves.
• Splash of Color: The last 41 minutes of the episode are in black and white, except for the flashes of color in the Trinity explosion, the regal sea, and the golden Palmer sphere which emerged from the Giant.
• Stop Motion: The convenience store door flutters open and airtight and the shadowy men men move in a finish-start manner at this store.
• Stop Movement Lighting: The flashes of low-cal as the Woodsmen harvest the Bob blob and at the convenience shop.
• Stunned Silence: Ray stares in horror as the Woodsmen pull Bob from the doppelgänger.
• Supervillain Lair: Evil Cooper assumes that Ray wants to become to the Subcontract.
• Tracking Device: Mr. C notes that at that place are 3 tracking devices on their car.
• Undignified Decease: We believe that the doppelgänger will shoot Ray while he urinates, just this is a Subverted Trope when the gun fails to fire.
• The Voiceless: Señorita Dido and the behemothic exercise not say a discussion.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: The experiments expels egg-like spheres, including one with Bob's features. This recalls Dougie's and the doppelgänger's explosive vomiting in episode iii.
• Weird Moon: A fade to black lightens to show a half moon in the night heaven before we cutting to Ray calling Phillip equally he flees the site of the shooting.
• White Shirt of Expiry: Evil Cooper dressed for his chest wound.
• Wild Goose Chase: The Bob-possessed Cooper doppelgänger resets the tracking devices to the license plate of the truck ahead of them.

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